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u11-lisil-e.ayn-L.oro-rsisatc-«c-ofofberen-'e-ftSitstioIS-V-3eofiyidinatre18-C3rt-ofon11-ofader1),ies*y:h-n-LU-mtro-toas-ry»n-ifendI?]in-3 atotThe Xew Attorney General’s ViewsOn Reconstruction, and a One-Armed Federal Soldier’s Views onTlie Sew Attorney General.As Mr. Amos Akerman lias suddenly become a veiy great man, of course his lightest words, nods, winks and blinks, become of prodigious importance, and those ubiquitous ear-wigs called Washington correspondents, are interviewing him ad nauseam. One of them, in the interest of the Herald, called on him Friday, and in Saturday’s issue, of that paper we are treated to 3Ir. A.’s “views” on reconstruction. That question having now been definitely settled by the new Attorney General we suppose it will be incontinently timist out of the range of discussion for all time to come. The correspondent says:In a brief conversation to-day with your correspondent Mr. Akerman remarked that in bis opinion the whole question of reconstruction was involved in the phrase 4'in the Union that from the very first act of reconstruction the continued existence of States was recognized: that they were not designated rebel territory, but rebel States, which indicates either that there was an unpardonable oversight in terms, a confasion of ideas, or an intentional acknowledgement of the immortality of the State. He said while this was admitted, there was no question but that the governments had been broken down, and though the existence of the Stato had not terminated its government had, as far as its relations to the Union were concerned, and by the legislation of the National Government it was necessary to reconstruct and build up the government.Mr. Akermon's appointment does not, however, seem to be received with quite as much fsvor in other parts of the country, and by other classes, as by the hangers on at Washing” ton city. A one-armed Federal soldier who evidently labors under the mental hallucination that Mr. A. did an immense amount of mnsket loading and firing during the war, and consequently was a very sanguinary ‘‘rebel” warrior, waxes quite bilious and to relieve his liver writes the following letter to the Now York Tribune^ of Saturday:To the Editor of the 7'rikunc:.' Sir—For the past eight or nine years I have been a constant reader of the Tribune, and I am surprised that you so warmly advocate the confirmation of A. T. Aker man as Attorney General of the United States. One who admits that ho joined the Confederate Army of his own accord, and fought for eighteen months with all the ability be had to subvert the Government, is nut the man for tl; il ion. Is is not an insult to my one arm, is it notaa.ontrage upon thonsands of widows, to see walkingibe streets, bearing the. insigoia of ofih'3, a man who did all ho could to make them widows and their children fatherless ? And does it help his case that, when the last hope of the South and of tho success of the rebellion was gone, he turned traitor to his friends South, af he bad- before done to his country ? This maybe satisfactory to tbo ltepublican party, but it doesn’t suit the poor soldier or the widow and orphan. - - A Poon Soldier.Jjfar York, June 21, 1870. 1 • a •P. 8. We feel it a duty to say that, in on* judgment, this one-armed solcUer’s second quec-tioujs highly improper not to,ray imperUceuf.to t E H of \ sipp and turo of T tain . Tl era rive: T] actilt; Tl appc Kuo Heel Oi Sens clud; Kell W the lt;spiri inco: The for s 21. this vidii men In to tl in C Tl Mea yeast;millperUnilnt pof tautlgold$10lt;beaiwitlSevlt;be uthatTre:be cdeerstro;pub!C ness Tne inh Hon for i feet safe
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Macon Georgia Weekly Telegraph and Georgia Journal and Messenger
Macon, Georgia, US
Tue, Jul 05, 1870
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